Milledgeville CVB Director Appointed to State Tourism Board

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 3:00 AM

ANNOUNCEMENT

For
Immediate Release

Milledgeville CVB
Director Appointed to State Tourism Board

Milledgeville, GA...June 5,
2013...Governor Nathan Deal recently announced 27 new appointments to boards
throughout the state of Georgia. Jane
Sowell, executive director of the Milledgeville-Baldwin Convention and Visitors
Bureau, was selected as a new appointee to the Georgia Tourism Foundation
Board.

The mission of the Georgia
Tourism Foundation, under the administration of the Georgia Department of
Economic Development, is to increase the economic strength of Georgia by
promoting tourism through public/private partnerships. The current board
consists of representatives of 10 Georgia Authorities, DNR and GDEcD (Chair),
seven appointed private sector members and 15 non-voting advisors.

Sowell has served as the
Executive Director of the Milledgeville CVB for the past 14 years. She
currently serves as president of the Georgia Association of Convention &
Visitors Bureaus and sits on the board of Trustees for Georgia's Lake Country.
She is past president of Georgia's Historic Heartland Travel Association,
Georgia's Antebellum Trail Association, the 441 Heritage Highway Association
and the Balls Ferry Historical Park Association. Sowell served on the Advisory
Board for the J. Bunting School of Business at Georgia College and State
University and Georgia Military College Foundation. She is a 2005 graduate of
Leadership Georgia and received the Larry Allen Award from the state of Georgia
for Excellence in Tourism. Jane and her husband, Ed, have three children and
six grandchildren. They reside in Milledgeville.

For more information on
Milledgeville please visit the CVB office at 200 West Hancock Street or call
478-452-4687. You may also visit their website at www.VisitMilledgeville.org.